Corona Capital 2013

Posted on Monday, 20 May | Comments

​Ciudad de México, México.- El Festival Corona Capital develó el cartel con las bandas que integran la edición 2013, encabezada por agrupaciones como Deadmau5, Phoenix, The XX, Blondie, Travis, Queens of The Stone Age, Sigur Rós, entre otros…

El encuentro musical se realizará los días 12 y 13 de octubre, en la curva 4 del Autódromo de los Hermanos Rodríguez, según se dio a conocer a través del portal oficial del Festival Corona Capital. 

Para esta edición se contempla la participación de más de 40 bandas, según lo informado por los organizadores del Festival, que año con año presenta a las mejores propuestas en la escena del rock internacional. 

Aquí la lista de bandas que conforman el cartel:

Quadron
Ms Mr
Robert Delong
Nguzunguzu
The Postelles
Peace
Toy
Death Grips
Chris Lake
Deap Vally
Kurt Vile and the Violators
Palma Violets
Jacques Lu Cont
The Presets
The Dandy Warhols
Conor Oberst
Dinosaur Jr.
The Crystal Method
White Lies
M.I.A.
Travis
Imagine Dragons
Blondie
The xx
Phoenix
Deadmau5
Iceage
Mueran Humanos
DJ Harvey
Io Echo
John Talabot
Jake Bugg
Jamie XX
The Black Angels
Capital Cities
Squarepusher
Grimes
Matt And Kim
Gary Clark Jr.
Portugal The Man
Stereophonics
Jimmy Eat World
Fun.
Vampire Weekend
The Breeders
Sigur Rós
Arctic Monkeys
Queens Of The Stone Age

La venta de boletos iniciará los primeros días de junio, y se dividirá en tres fases, según se informa a través de la página oficial del Corona Capital.

Fase 1 

Los días 6 y 7 de junio, los tarjetahabientes Banamex, pódrán adquirir sus entradas a partir de las 11 de la mañana, y el boleto por día tendrá un costo por día de 650 pesos. No habrá bono por dos días y la venta de las entradas será limitada.

Fase 2 
Iniciará cuando termine el número de boletos disponibles de la Fase 1.
Boleto por día: $750
Abono por dos días: $1,300
Número LIMITADO de boletos. 

Fase 3: 
Iniciará cuando termine la fase 2.

Boleto por un día: $900
Abono por dos días: $1,550
Hasta agotar existencias…

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Pie izquierdo

Posted on Sunday, 19 May | Comments

¿Qué tan listo es tu pie izquierdo? Un divertido y seguro experimento para hacer en casa. Si, ya se que esto existe desde el tiempo de las abuelitas, pero me divirtió bastante re-encontrármelo, volver a tratar de hacerlo, y comprobar que no se puede (al menos no la primera vez).

Try this:

1) While sitting in front of your computer, lift your right foot and make clockwise circles.

2) Now, while doing that, draw the number 6 in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction. Nad there’s nothing you can do about it.

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Glass: what if...

Posted on Saturday, 18 May | Comments

Google Glass es un experimento aún en pañales. Todos esperan su llegada, aunque se entiende poco lo que se va a poder hacer con él.
Lo básico es que este nuevo juguetito, al ser montado en la cabeza a manera de diadema, se convierte en un dispositivo 100% hands-free. Pero ni el ser unos anteojos con internet, ni el tomar fotos y videos, ni manejar comandos de voz lo llegan a hacer algo revolucionario. Debe servir para más. Incluso la polémica se ha tenido que desviar a otros temas mas negativos, como el de la privacidad.

Ahora acaba de salir este video y artículo de playground -mucho más reveladores al respecto- que nos dan dos noticias (una buena y otra mala):

1. La buena es que se podrían tener cientos de utilidades mas allá del teléfono y la cámara (desde video-juegos y realidad aumentada hasta e-shopping)…
2. Y la mala, es que aún no se tienen, no se ha desarrollado casi ninguna de ellas, por lo que mucho de esto aún sigue siendo solamente una promesa tecnológica.

En fin, hay que ver para adelante…

In the video we are visualizing a few use cases for a heads up display. Most of these examples would not be possible on the current Google Glass Mirror API platform.  The platform itself is a RESTful-based API meant for sending small messages of push data.  Video, picture, audio, and text linked from HTML/CSS formatted messages are sent via a web service request to the Google Glass Mirror API.  The API is not for developing true native applications.

Today’s Google Glass is still an experiment.  This is Google’s first attempt at the form factor, hardware, software and platform. Battery life likely played a huge role in the guidelines for applications. Native processing is a huge drain on battery. Applications that process video feeds or photos of your environment would strain Glass’s processor.  Maintaining a two-way data connection for long periods of time will quickly burn through battery as well.  The current battery likely would not even be able to support LTE/4G and GPS radios…

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Cosas que no existen

Posted on Friday, 17 May | Comments

Me encontré un buen resumen de lo que se víó en la reciente edición de Google I/O, donde a decir verdad y fuera de algunas buenas renovaciones a productos ya conocidos (Glass, HangOuts, Google Music) no hubo tanto de innovación fuera de lo que ya se conocía, pero sí mucho de “imitación”.
En este evento el mismo Larry Page declaró “deberíamos estar construyendo cosas que no existen”; hay que predicar con el ejemplo, pues aquí hay una lista de cosas (y por eso me gustó esta nota) contra las que Google busca no innovar, sino competir pues son cosas que ya existen, aunque no gracias a ellos… 

Google just dropped a metric ton of Google on us. Sorting through it all, it’s clear that the company’s not just trying to put new goodness into the world; it’s trying to blow plenty of existing products and services out of the water. Here are all the things Google’s looking to unseat and uppercut into the spike pit.

GroupMe, Skype, All Other Chat

Welp, here’s Hangouts. Google announced its new chat app today, which is for conversations (text, photos, albums), between one person or, more importantly, groups. It’s on the web, iOS, and Android, and has a ton of group features. Video chat (for the whole group, and free) is obvious, but it gives you notifications for everyone in the chat. It’s unified chat in a way that Google hasn’t done before, and in a way that should make popular cross-platform apps like GroupMe very nervous.

Spotify/Rdio/Pandora/Xbox Music

This one’s obvious, but Google announced Google Play Music All Access, a paid subscription music service. You’ll be able to sign up for the service, which will be linked and integrated to your Google account better than existing third-party providers ever could be, and listen to full tracks, store them, or just play internet radio. Right through your Google account. Spotify, Pandora, and Rdio all have their cross-platform ubiquity in their favor, but remember: Google is Google, and the web is everywhere.

PayPal, MasterCard MasterPass

Google’s new idea for mobile payments, using Google Wallet, is to autocomplete all the fields that mobile stores ask for. Your address, your credit card, your billing zip code. All of it stored in your Google Wallet account. We’ve seen this novel idea from MasterCard before, and PayPal’s offered similar for ages, but if you’re automatically logged in as soon as you sign into your phone, well, why would you use something else?

Traditional Textbooks

Classrooms haven’t gotten smarter at the same rate as the trinkets in our pockets have. That’s been obvious for years. Google announced a new platform to buy apps, textbooks, and videos for schools, right through the Google Play interface. Google apps have been in a lot of colleges, but setting up a platform that lets school admins buy content (through funded balances, instead of credit cards), and push it to every student in the district, is a pretty compelling idea.

Android Skins

The coolest nerd service thing of the day might have been the announcement of the new unskinned stock Android Galaxy S 4. Party time! But the subtext there, maybe, is that Google knows the skins that manufacturers shove onto their phones aren’t how people should be using Android. And the more choice we have on these flagship devices, the better off we’ll all be.

Gifs and Jpegs

Google announced that it’s going to be throwing its weight behind a (relatively) new file type, called WebP. It can deliver lossless images, no different in quality from Jpegs or Gifs, but at about 26 percent smaller sizes. It can even do animations. Google’s pushing this format in HTML 5, and has optimized Chrome for it, to let media-rich sites more usable as it pushes Chrome OS and the mobile web on tablets on phones.

Flickr

It’s the storage. Google+ upped your max to 15GB storage (from 5GB) for your full size photos on Google+. You still get infinite storage for standard size, but what matters for Flickr is that Google is moving in on the full res territory it had staked out in its fight for its life against Facebook. A unified storage bin from Google is pretty attractive, especially if it keeps working with the big, professional file sizes.

Photoshop for Newbs and iPhoto

Google+’s new Auto-Awesome and photo enhancing stuff is aimed at people who don’t know much about editing a photo, but know enough to know that there’s cool stuff that can be done. If it works properly (and we’ll have a hands-on to tell you), it will touch up every single photo you upload, fixing wrinkles and exposure and red eyes and the like. More over, it will do this automatically, so there’s much less chance this feature will just fall forgotten to the side, like so many things do.

Siri

Google’s new conversational search is wildly ambitious. It’s also a pitch we’ve heard before. Talking to your phone or computer like you’d talk to a real assistant (a word Google used throughout the presentation) is what Siri was supposed to be. But Siri’s real problem was always that it was just, well, a bad search engine . You think that’s going to be a problem for Google?…

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Why barns are red

Posted on Thursday, 16 May | Comments

Los graneros son rojos por la forma en que se mueren las estrellas…
Suena a poesía pero no, aquí va la explicación de esto.
Me encantan este tipo de inter-conexiones inusuales entre cosas que en apariencia son totalmete ajenas. Como decían en el Circulo de Viena: “el conocimiento es uno”…

We all know that barns are usually red. But why? Well, the answer is a little more complicated than you might think, but basically it’s because of nuclear fusion.

Googler Yonatan Zunger took the time to explain the whole thing in great detail on Google+, and the train of thought goes a little something like this:

• Barns are red because red paint is the cheapest and easiest to make.
• Red paint is the cheapest and easiest to make because the ground is loaded with an iron-oxide compound called red orche. (or basically, rust)
• The ground is loaded with red ochre because when stars die, physics dictates they generate a bunch of iron and explode.

It’s that step where things get a little more complicated. Zunger explains it this way:

[When a star dies, it] starts to shrink. And as it shrinks, the pressure goes up, and the temperature goes up, until suddenly it hits a temperature where a new reaction can get started. These new reactions give it a big burst of energy, but start to form heavier elements still, and so the cycle gradually repeats, with the star reacting further and further up the periodic table, producing more and more heavy elements as it goes.

Until it hits 56. At that point, the reactions simply stop producing energy at all; the star shuts down and collapses without stopping. This collapse raises the pressure even more, and sets off various nuclear reactions which will produce even heavier elements, but they don’t produce any energy: just stuff…

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Who's Daft Punk?

Posted on Thursday, 16 May | Comments

¿Qué pasa en Internet con Daft PUnk y su nuevo (mas esperado que bueno) Random Access Memories?  Mientras se estrenaban documentales, canciones, entrevistas, photoshoots y un sinfín de contenido sobre la banda en distintos medios, en México, Dani Granatta se hacía una pregunta muy sencilla: ¿Quiénes estarán detrás de los cascos?

Todos sabemos que Daft Punk en realidad son Thomas Bangalter y Guy-Manuel de Homem-Cristo, pero cómo saber que siempre son ellos quienes están bajo los cascos de robot. Aunque ellos juran que jamás dejarían que alguien más se presentara con los trajes en su nombre, a lo largo de su carrera se han dado algunas licencias al respecto. Por ejemplo, en su película Electroma, ellos no son quienes vemos a cuadro, sino los actores Peter Hurteau y Michael Reich…

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Fish heads

Posted on Tuesday, 14 May | Comments

The first four-legged animals colonised land 400 million years ago, but it took them 80 million years to lose their fishy heads.

Marcello Ruta of the University of Lincoln, UK, and colleagues examined the lower jaws of 89 tetrapod fossils, dating from 410 to 295 million years ago. During this period, fish fins evolved into limbs, allowing their owners to crawl out of the water onto land.

The team found that all the animals had jaws of roughly the same shape. Major changes only started around 320 million years ago, mostly occurring in reptiles (Integrative and Comparative Biology, doi.org/mfd).

The animals’ early fish-like jaws were suited to tearing flesh rather than chewing plants. Ruta’s finding supports the theory that reptiles evolved their jaws only after they had mastered breathing using their ribs, allowing them to devote their mouths to chewing…

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